Why is Pu'er tea pressed into tea cakes? Can drinking Pu'er tea remove dampness?

Pu'er tea is a very famous tea that many people like to drink. Pu'er tea can be divided into raw and cooked types. You can often see Pu'er tea sold in cakes. Some tea leaves are sold in bulk, so why is Pu'er tea pressed into cakes?

Why is Pu'er tea pressed into tea cakes?

From the perspective of Pu'er tea history, Yunnan is located in the southwest border and the transportation is very inconvenient. In order to promote the export of tea, the method of pressing tea into cakes was adopted and transported by horse. Pressing into tea cakes can not only make full use of space, but also facilitate taxation.

From the perspective of Pu'er tea itself, Pu'er tea has the characteristic of "getting more fragrant as it ages" which is a natural transformation in the later stage. The original fragrance of loose tea is easy to dissipate, while Pu'er tea is pressed into cakes to minimize the absorption and evaporation of water, the impact of temperature on tea leaves, retain microorganisms and fragrance, and better preserve the tea quality.

Moreover, pressing Pu'er tea into cakes is not only beneficial for later storage and transformation, but also allows the taste to achieve a qualitative leap, allowing tea drinkers to experience the different flavors of the same tea at different times.

Currently, white tea, Liubao tea, black tea, etc. on the market are all in the form of compressed tea, while green tea and other teas that cannot self-ferment in the later stage basically do not appear in the form of compressed tea.

Can drinking Pu'er tea remove dampness?

Pu'er tea is divided into raw tea and cooked tea. Raw tea is slightly cool and can relieve internal heat, but it is more irritating to the stomach and intestines, while cooked tea is relatively mild. For people with heavy moisture in the body, if they want to eliminate moisture and nourish their stomach at the same time, mild Pu'er tea is a good choice.

After aging, Pu'er ripe tea has a pure fragrance, sweet taste, and a mellow and soft taste. It is a good choice for friends with heavy moisture in the body. If you want to remove moisture and have a stomach, the mild Pu'er tea is a good choice.

Is Pu'er tea black tea?

Ripe Pu'er is made according to the process of black tea, while raw Pu'er is made according to the process of green tea.

The basic process of making green tea is: fresh leaves - withering - rolling - drying. Generally, the raw materials of green tea are tender leaves of small and medium leaf varieties, and their appearance is mostly beautiful and delicate. However, raw Pu'er tea is made of large leaf varieties, and its appearance is rough and old, but the taste is stronger and bitter, which is called Dianqing or Dianlu.

However, after several years of transformation, the taste and soup color of raw Pu'er will change. The soup color will change from yellow-green to orange-green, and then to bright red. The taste will become mellow and smooth, the bitterness will fade, the sweetness will increase, and the flower and fruit aroma will become aged aroma and jujube aroma. People who don't know how to distinguish will mistake it for cooked Pu'er. But in fact, no matter how raw Pu'er changes in the later stage, since the six major tea categories are divided according to different processes, according to this basis, raw Pu'er after material transformation is still raw Pu'er, and it will never be cooked Pu'er.